Call me a slag. If it means being a strong woman, I'll gladly be that.

I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

The female body is something that's so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women for being proud of theirs.

You can never be too perfect, too thin, too curvy. I'm very confident and happy with my body.

I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl.

I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.

There was no way in hell I was going to jeopardize my baby for my show.

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.

It was no secret joke that brought the smile and the sparkle in his eye, it was physics.

You are distinguished in life by your ability to recognize and follow God's voice on daily basis.

I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.

Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.

Yes, I'm a real fighter. But I often ended up empty-handed.

You need to follow your own heart in light of God’s word and do what you feel is right and good for you.

As loud voices argue on, let us remember that those who advocate abortion have already been born!

I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words. I scatter them... in time, and space. A message to lead myself here.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

I think too many film students in America are losing the artistry and not learning lighting the right way.